Michael Bublé · Michael Bublé

Kissing a Fool

Kissing a Fool is in E flat major at 75 beats per minute.

Tempo

75 BPM · Adagiomedian of 131 analyses · 74.9–111.9 across the middle eight tenths

Key: E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 131people who ran the extractor
One beat: 800milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 6.27dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.105Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 0.997Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 74.9 to 111.9 BPM.

At 75 BPM one beat lasts 800 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 200 ms and a dotted eighth 600 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 37.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 150. A score would mark that Adagio, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.27 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.105 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in E flat major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 75 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	3200	0.31
Half note	2	1600	0.63
Dotted quarter	1.5	1200	0.83
Quarter note (one beat)	1	800	1.25
Quarter triplet	0.667	533.3	1.88
Dotted eighth	0.75	600	1.67
Eighth note	0.5	400	2.5
Eighth triplet	0.333	266.7	3.75
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	300	3.33
Sixteenth note	0.25	200	5
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	133.3	7.5
Thirty-second note	0.125	100	10

Half time 37.5 BPM · double time 150 BPM. Every row is one beat (800 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

Kissing a FoolGeorge MichaelD major78BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 75 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat major All songs at 75 BPM Michael Bublé

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id c9feba73-747e-4608-9f55-3990149735b4.